Building maintenance strategies: planning under uncertainty

Lind, Hans; Muyingo, Henry

doi:10.1108/02637471211198152

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“…The study of Lind and Muyingo (2011) in Sweden evaluates building maintenance strategies with focus on planning under uncertainty. The paper establishes that there are a number of specific uncertainties that affect building maintenance planning which make more detailed long-term plans less meaningful.…”

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Facilities management practices in the Nigerian public universities

Odediran

Gbadegesin

Babalola

2015

Journal of Facilities Management

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services. AbstractPurpose -The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the diffusion of facilities management (FM) as a sustainable tool to facility performance within the perspective of public universities in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach -A review of the literature reveals the practices of FM in both the educational and institutional buildings. Factors influencing the practices and strategies for sustaining facilities condition were evaluated. Data were collected through a well-structured questionnaire administered on both the technical and managerial officers in charge of FM in Nigeria public universities. Data collected were subjected to both the descriptive and inferential statistical tools. Findings -The FM practice in the Nigeria public universities is found to be lagging behind private sector experience, despite the significant benefits of FM to learning process. In particular, passive actions are being taken to manage facilities, even when most are obsolete and deteriorated. Critical challenges to FM practice are low level of technology, poor funding and poor policy implementation. Outsourcing of technical personnel is essential to ameliorate the conditions of public universities' facilities in Nigeria. Practical implications -This paper helps policymakers and administrators to know the condition of facilities and understand the FM practice in the Nigerian public universities. Originality/value -Reactive/passive practice is the norm in FM of public universities in Nigeria. However, outsourcing of technical personnel in FM has a great potential for functional facilities in public universities.

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Section: Rationale For Educational Fmmentioning

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Facilities management practices in the Nigerian public universities

Odediran

Gbadegesin

Babalola

2015

Journal of Facilities Management

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“…Such a delay is caused by uncertainties that are not effectively predicted during the maintenance stage due to different factors such as budget limitations, environmental conditions, lack of communications, the availability of skilled labors, inclement weather and climate, etc. [3,[8][9][10]. These factors can also highly influence the cost performance and management efficiency of the building design and construction phase [11][12][13][14].…”

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BIM-based integrated management workflow design for schedule and cost planning of building fabric maintenance

Chen

Tang

2019

Automation in Construction

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The operation and maintenance (O&M) is the longest and costliest phase during the entire building lifecycle. In recent decades, with the rapidly increasing costs of new constructions, the effective maintenance has become more important to the existing buildings, particularly to their fabric components, which include both architectural and structural items for maintaining physical characteristics and ensuring the normal performance of the existing building over its lifecycle. However, building maintenance costs are also increasing dramatically and this situation mainly results from the delay of maintenance work due to inefficient maintenance planning for the facility management purpose. The inefficient maintenance planning is caused due to a lack of effective methods and techniques for predicting the uncertainties, including schedule and costs during the maintenance stage. Therefore, this paper proposes an innovative management workflow design which integrates Building Information Modelling (BIM) with digital programming to implement an efficient schedule and cost planning of building fabric maintenance. Through this BIM-based workflow design, the knowledge gap between maintenance theories and practical maintenance management can be narrowed by a consistent and sustainable building information flow, which is highly linked with the design and construction phase. This study contributes to integrating the traditional maintenance management with digital technologies to improve the management performance and maintenance efficiency of the O&M phase in the future.

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“…Economic efficiency calls for the need to have a plan for when to carry out various maintenance activities (e.g., changing the roof) and how to implement this plan. However, in a situation of uncertainty, there will be a higher degree of corrective maintenance, as well as opportunistic maintenance (carrying out some more maintenance measures than those originally intended) as long-term plans are liable to be continually changed [45]. The fact that members of the executive board in a TOC (the decision-makers) are laypersons that are elected for a short period of time or move from the cooperative, can create a barrier to the adoption of energy efficiency measures due to limited knowledge-and/or information management.…”

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Organizational Challenges in the Adoption of Building Applied Photovoltaics in the Swedish Tenant-Owner Housing Sector

Muyingo

2015

Sustainability

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Sweden has committed itself to comply with EU-directive 2009/28/EC on energy from renewable sources and 2012/27/EU on improvement in the efficiency of energy. Measures in the existing housing stock, such as installing photovoltaics (PV), provide a means of contributing to the goals above. The purpose of this paper is to study how the organization of property management and the decision-making structure in tenant-owner cooperatives (TOCs) in Sweden facilitates or hampers the adoption of large-scale residential building applied photovoltaics (BAPV) in this housing sector. Data collected through seven semi-structured interviews of executive board members in seven housing cooperatives were descriptively analyzed and the results indicate that the decision to adopt BAPV in TOCs does not follow the common frameworks of adoption of innovations. The choice by TOCs to adopt BAPV depends more on the wish to lower operating costs than on efforts to promote a sustainable environment and various principal-agency problems during the decision-making process, as well as during the implementation phase create challenges to the adoption of BAPV. There is a need to strengthen the quality and management of knowledge, as well as procurement proficiency in the TOCs in order to harness the potential for BAPV in the sector.

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Building maintenance strategies: planning under uncertainty

Cited by 55 publications

References 40 publications

Facilities management practices in the Nigerian public universities

Facilities management practices in the Nigerian public universities

BIM-based integrated management workflow design for schedule and cost planning of building fabric maintenance

Organizational Challenges in the Adoption of Building Applied Photovoltaics in the Swedish Tenant-Owner Housing Sector

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